Third Critical Study on Cooperative Legislation and Policy Reforms

Abstract

This study on Co-operative Legislation and Policy Reforms is third in a series of studies commissioned by 1CA-ROAP since convening of the first Co-operative Ministers’ Conference in Sydney, Australia, in 1990. The last such, 6th in the series. Co-operative Ministers' Conference of Asia-Pacific Region was held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in April 2002. Major input for this conference, preceded by regional consultations held in Tehran. Iran, in July 2001, was the findings and recommendations of the 2nd study conducted by two able professionals in the field, Mr. Ravi Shankar and Mr. Garry Cronan. The conferences and consultations held so far focused mainly on enabling co-operative legislation and policy reforms in order to create favourable environment for sustainable development of co-operatives in a changing global economic scenario. The objectives of the present study are to examine the process of reforms in legislation and policies of the governments in the region and to assess the impact of the resolutions of the 6th ministerial conference and their implementation.